Christians believe that all of the dead will be resurrected in the end times either to live forever in paradise (the saved) or to experience everlasting conscious punishment (the unsaved).
The determination will be made by God based on whether or not in this life they repented of their sins and accepted God’s free gift of salvation purchased by Jesus Christ on the cross.
But the Watchtower teaches something quite different. Continue reading
Because the Watchtower teaches that the great crowd will live on a paradise earth and that only 144,000 anointed ones will go to heaven, Jehovah’s Witnesses like to stump Christians with questions we haven’t thought of regarding our final destination.
Their purpose is to get us to doubt what we believe and make the Watchtower teachings more credible.
We need to anticipate these questions and be prepared to respond. Continue reading
In order to show you that there are two classes of Christians, Jehovah’s Witnesses will have you read Luke 12:32, where Jesus says, “Have no fear, little flock, for your Father has approved of giving you the Kingdom.”
Then they go immediately to Revelation 7:4, which says, “And I heard the number of those who were sealed, 144,000, sealed out of every tribe of the sons of Israel:”
They will then take you to Revelation 14:1, which states: “Then I saw, and look! the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who have his name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads.”
They will say that the 144,000 refers to “spiritual Israel,” the “anointed class” of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Notice that they have hopscotched you from one part of the Bible to another, asserting without proof that all of these verses are referring to the same group. Continue reading
The Watchtower claims that in order to be saved; members of the earthly class must prove worthy by their works many times.
Ask the Witnesses the stone-in-the-shoe questions:
Don’t argue with them.
Keep asking stone-in-the-shoe questions to draw them out. Continue reading
As we saw last time, the Watchtower teaches that in order to obtain everlasting life, members of the great crowd must achieve moral perfection by the end of the millennial kingdom.
Ask the Witnesses the stone-in-the-shoe question:
The Watchtower gives a number of explanations.
Don’t argue with them.
Instead, ask them to explain to you step-by-step what is supposed to happen. Continue reading
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